Published the 05/05/2025 22:49
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History: Audio recordings of the Nazi Klaus Barbie reveal a version of the death of Jean Moulin
(France 2)
3min
Historical documents have just been released by the American University of Stanford concerning recordings of Klaus Barbie, the chief of the Gestapo of Lyon. Recordings that relate his meeting with Jean Moulin, arrested and tortured. The circumstances of the death of the founder of the National Council of Resistance are also revealed there.
Klaus Barbie, this name probably tells you something. Indeed, he was the head of the Gestapo of Lyon and gave himself up to a journalist at the time on the death of the most famous resistance fighter Jean Moulin. The American University of Stanford has unveiled audio recordings of the Nazi. In his interview, the torturer Klaus Barbie returned to the circumstances of the death of Jean Moulin imprisoned and tortured in Lyon in 1943.
The audio track has been published and we hear the chief of the Gestapo de Lyon explain his version of the facts on the death of the French: “In prison, we had a cellar below. This is where Jean Moulin made a suicide attempt. He was certainly attached by the hands but I had not made him tied by the feet. I did not think about it, the guards did not pay attention to it. He was gaining momentum and entered his head into the wall and opened his skull. That’s why he died.”
Find the entire report in the video above
